ATLANTA — It all started with a discount.
Ben McCleskey, now 24, was a freshman at Shorter University in Rome, Georgia when he and his crush Avery Armstrong, now 26, were casual friends. A self-proclaimed “broke college kid,” McCleskey found the perfect opportunity to take Armstrong out on a first date: The inaugural Atlanta Hawks “Swipe Right Night.”
“We had known each other, but we were just casual friends,” McCleskey said. “Then, I talked her into going to the game, I was like ‘Hey, use the Tinder promotion for $10 tickets, a food and drink voucher.